Rent Disconnect (2012)
3.3 of 5 from 92 ratings
1h 51min
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- Synopsis:
- A hard-working lawyer, attached to his mobile phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbours and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
- Actors:
- Jason Bateman, Jonah Bobo, Haley Ramm, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Max Thieriot, Colin Ford, Norbert Leo Butz, Kasi Lemmons, John Sharian, Aviad Bernstein
- Directors:
- Henry-Alex Rubin
- Producers:
- William Horberg, Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Monroe
- Writers:
- Andrew Stern
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama
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Reviews (1) of Disconnect
Very Enjoyable Movie about the Dangers of the Internet for Kids + Adults - Disconnect review by PV
I enjoyed this film. It follows separate stories of characters which may later overlap, and shows how the internet - the bad side of it - affects them all, in often devastating ways. There's money, there's sex, there are broken relationships.
The dark underbelly of the internet and so-called social media needs to be called out, and I am glad movies like this do.
The first 2 acts are particularly strong and all, sadly, utterly believable.
The internet with all its fraud, bullying, trolling, perversion, abuse is the new normal - or abnormal - so it is good to see films like this being made. Why can;'t the UK make believable contemporary films like this?
It could be a TV drama, it's that good - and I mean a decent US TV drama (like Breaking Bad) not the usual soapy preachy BBC dross.
4 stars.
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